Among Us VR will launch someday through the 2022 vacation season, which probably means December, given how little time there’s left to the yr.

Among Us VR is, and this ought to be no shock, a VR-exclusive title. To play it, you’ll need one of many following headsets: the Meta Quest, Playstation VR, or Steam-compatible VR headset (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, or Valve Index). It is feasible different VR units will get it sooner or later, however, for now, these are your choices to get behind the visor of a crewmate or imposter.

The trailer opens on a yellow bean crew mate wandering by a hallway earlier than slicing to a first-person perspective. They strategy a panel and begin the duty utilizing new VR movement controls. As it masses, they overhear two different crewmates passing by, turning their head to catch a glimpse of them speaking.

The trailer cuts to a gathering the place all of the crew mates are standing round a desk, arguing and flailing their disembodied arms whereas yellow merely spins his fingers making an attempt to look harmless. The scene cuts with everybody else staring immediately at yellow.

The cycle repeats of yellow doing a job, two others going by, and one getting killed, and an more and more smaller assembly is held with suspicion pointed immediately at an oblivious yellow. It lastly involves a head as purple approaches and bites the highest half of yellow off, leaving her or him as a ghost.

Just like Among Us, Among Us VR gained’t have a story of its personal, however as an alternative will likely be all concerning the narratives you and your folks create in every particular person match.

Among Us VR will likely be constructed on the identical core mechanics of the unique sport however clearly tweaked for VR. As a crew mate, you’ll nonetheless be working across the Skeld, finishing duties, making an attempt to not die, and holding conferences to try to decide who the imposter(s) is.

The shift to first-person and utilizing movement controls would be the largest adjustments. We see within the trailer that your discipline of view will likely be rather more restricted than it was within the unique sport, the place you performed from a third-person perspective. However, now you can additionally extra simply look away out of your job simply by turning your head. All the duties we’ve seen contain interacting with panels by way of movement controls, which is able to in all probability really feel much more novel to do than it seems to be on video.

Imposters will nonetheless be capable of sneak by vents and sabotage duties to stitch discord among the many crew mates. The trailer exhibits an instance of an imposter capable of peek by the slots of a vent to spy on a crewmate.

Finally, it is possible for you to to do little hand gestures throughout conferences to try to level out imposters or throw the suspicion off your self. It gained’t assist a lot should you’ve been caught outright, however it’ll give extra life and character to essentially the most social a part of the sport.

Just like the primary sport, Among Us VR is completely a multiplayer sport. It will help anyplace between 4 and 10 gamers, with a number of imposters primarily based in your settings.